This study explores the effect of financial distress on the intensity of asymmetric cost behavior. Cost asymmetry refers to the different (i.e., asymmetric) response of variable costs between increases or decreases in the level of a firm’s operating activity due to deliberate managerial...

The goal of this paper is to build an operational model for evaluating the financial viability of local municipalities in Greece. For this purpose, a multicriteria methodology is implemented combining a simulation analysis approach (stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis) with a...